Open AccessGender differences in oral lesions among persons with HIV disease in Southern India
Author(s) -
Umadevi K Rao,
Kannan Ranganathan,
Nagalingeswaran Kumarasamy
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology/journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.455
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1998-393X
pISSN - 0973-029X
DOI - 10.4103/0973-029x.102492
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , demography , population , odds ratio , male gender , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , lesion , disease , pediatrics , surgery , immunology , environmental health , sociology
In India, it is estimated that 2.5 million people are currently living with Human Immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) of which one million are women. Given the occurrence of oral lesions in our population, we studied the patter of these lesions with respect to the role played by gender.